Ratios from 80 to 90 constitute 5.2% of the record. Almost all occurred during a three-year period from September 1990 to November 1993 when there was an oversupply of silver stocks, industrial demand was down, and prices languished from $3.65 to $5.00 an ounce.

Other than the three-year period mentioned above, there were only two months, in March 1995 and March 2016, when the monthly average ratio was above 80.

Ratios greater than 90 make up 2.1% of the record and also happened in that 1990-1993 interval. The ratio averaged over 97 in February 1991, a value that was exceeded only in 1939 at the end of the depression and beginning of World War II.

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I am just wonderin why some wise guy doesn't get the notion to use platinum to counterfeit gold coins? Platy is plenty malleable unlike the other density mimic; tungsten. So why hasn't this happened? I've never know the crooks to be this slow.

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I am just wonderin why some wise guy doesn't get the notion to use platinum to counterfeit gold coins? Platy is plenty malleable unlike the other density mimic; tungsten. So why hasn't this happened? I've never know the crooks to be this slow.